The language of BeBop is one of the most enduring and eloquent in the history of jazz music. Originally created by jobbing musicians who collaborated in their spare time, BeBop was not meant to be a commercial vehicle but it caused such a storm in the mid 1940s that recordings soon followed. The 60 BeBop statements included in this set sound as fresh and invigorating now as when they were first recorded some 70 years ago. All of the prime movers and key recordings are included here.

• - 1 -

  • 1. The Dizzy Gillespie Septet - a Night In Tunisia
  • 2. The Charlie Parker Septet Ornithology
  • 3. The Miles Davis All-Stars Milestones
  • 4. The Thelonious Monk Quintet - In Walked Bud
  • 5. Bud Powell's Modernists - Bouncing With Bud
  • 6. Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra - Woody 'N You
  • 7. The Tiny Grimes Quintet - Tiny's Tempo
  • 8. Oscar Pettiford and His All Stars - Something For You
  • 9. Red Norvo and His Selected Sextet Hallelujah
  • 10. Jay Jay Johnson's Be-Boppers - Jay Bird
  • 11. The Sonny Stitt All Stars - Bebop In Pastel
  • 12. The Stan Getz Quartet - Opus De Bop
  • 13. Dizzy Gillespie and His All Star Quintet - Salt Peanuts
  • 14. Charlie Parker's Reboppers Koko
  • 15. The Dexter Gordon Quintet - Long Tall Dexter
  • 16. Sonny Berman's Big Eight - Woodchopper's Holiday
  • 17. Red Rodney's Be-Boppers - All God's Children Got Rhythm
  • 18. Fats Navarro- Nostalgia
  • 19. The Serge Chaloff All Stars - Gabardine and Serge
  • 20. Bab's Three Bips and a Bop - Oop-Pop-A-Da

• - 2 -

  • 1. The Charlie Parker All Stars - Donna Lee
  • 2. The Thelonious Monk Quartet Epistrophy
  • 3. Miles Davis and His Orchestra Move
  • 4. Art Blakey's Messengers - the Thin Man
  • 5. The Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - Groovin' High
  • 6. Bud Powell's Modernists - Dance of the Infidels
  • 7. Sir Charles Thompson's All Stars- Mad Lad
  • 8. Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray - the Chase
  • 9. The Tadd Dameron Sextet - the Squirrel
  • 10. Anita O'Day - What is This Thing Called Love?
  • 11. Leo Parker's All Stars - Wee Dot
  • 12. Kenny Clarke and His Fifty Second Street Boys - Jumpin' Ther
  • 13. The Miles Davis All Stars - Little Willie Leaps
  • 14. James Moody's Modernists - Cu-Ba
  • 15. Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra Manteca
  • 16. The Charlie Parker Septet - Yardbird Suite
  • 17. Illinois Jacquet and His Orchestra - Mutton Leg
  • 18. Tadd Dameron and His Orchestra Casbah
  • 19. Kenny Clarke and His Fifty Second Street Boys Confirmation
  • 20. The Howard McGhee Sextet With Milt Jackson - the Talk of the

• - 3 -

  • 1. The Thelonious Monk Quintet - Round Midnight
  • 2. Art Blakey's Messengers - Bop Alley
  • 3. The Charlie Parker Quintet - Scrapple From the Apple
  • 4. Bud Powell - Tempus Fugit
  • 5. Jay Jay Johnson's Bop Quintet - Bone-O-Logy
  • 6. The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars - Good Bait
  • 7. The Dexter Gordon Quintet - Dexter's Riff
  • 8. The Fats Navarro and His Thin Men - Goin' To Mintons
  • 9. James Moody's Modernists - Tin Tin Deo
  • 10. Babs Gonzales and His Orchestra - Professor Bop
  • 11. Miles Davis and His Orchestra Israel
  • 12. The Kai Winding Sextet - Crossing the Channel
  • 13. The Wardell Gray Quartet Twisted
  • 14. Bud Powell's Modernists Wail
  • 15. Dexter Gordon and Teddy Edwards - the Duel
  • 16. The Howard McGhee and Fats Navarro Boptet - the Skunk
  • 17. The Metronome All Stars - Victory Ball
  • 18. Tadd Dameron and His Orchestra Focus
  • 19. Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Bebop Spoken Here
  • 20. The Stan Getz Quartet - Crazy Chords